From neonatal lung function to lung function and respiratory morbidity at 6-year follow-up.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lung function is traceable from infancy to adulthood. Only a few studies have examined lung function from birth to childhood longitudinally in children born moderate to late preterm. We aimed to investigate how prematurity and lung function in the neonatal period are related to lung function and respiratory morbidity at age 6 in former moderate to late preterm children compared with children born at term.

Methods

Lung function was measured in a cohort of moderately to late preterm (n = 48) and term-born (n = 53) infants in the neonatal period by FeNO, and tidal breathing flow-volume loops (TBFVL) and at age 6 (n = 52) by spirometry, whole-body plethysmograph and impulse oscillation combined with a respiratory symptom questionnaire.

Results

Moderate to late

SUBMITTER: Goth FEM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10098878 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature